A humerus idea: Swiss designer makes light switches, electrical sockets from animal bones
In Switzerland, recent ECAL design school grad Souhaïb Ghanmi had a particularly unusual final project proposal: repurposing bones from the animal processing industry into...
Prized poop: Elephant dung bricks win design award
In Thailand, architect Boonserm Premthada has won the designboom social impact Design Prize for developing bricks made from elephant dung.
Made in the Thai village...
Three Little Pigs gives natural construction materials a bad rap?
In the Netherlands, the president of a climate change and inequality action group is huffing and puffing over the stigma associated with biobased building...
Hemp helps France claim world’s first carbon-negative building
In France, architecture firm lemoal lemoal has built what it claims to be the world’s first carbon-negative building, thanks in large part to the...
Home of the future may be 3D printed out of hemp
In New York, a consortium is developing hemp-based ink for use in 3D-printed construction applications. Black Buffalo 3D, a supplier of 3D printers and...
Cardboard shelters offer adorable woodland creatures protection after brush fires
In Australia, Macquarie University professor Alexandra Carthey has created biodegradable shelters for small critters that often struggle in the wake of brush fires. The six-sided...
Cork vacuum, RVs point to design renaissance
In Vancouver, online publication Yanko Design has done a deep dive on cork, the spongey bark material most often associated with wine. The extensive...
Swell idea: Wood-based surfboards win Down Under impact award
In Australia, Emile Theau has won the inaugural Generation Impact Incubator Award for his surfboard enterprise using fast-growing paulownia wood.
Designed in partnership with environmental...
New York biotextile startup raises $550,000
In New York, biobased textile startup Bucha Bio has raised $550,000 to scale its latest product, a renewable and biodegradable fabric made from bacterial...
From helmets to hives, designers are flexing fungi’s functionality
In Vancouver, online magazine Yanko Design has done a deep dive on mycelium-based production innovations, which include innovative concepts like helmets and Mars habitats.
The...